A group of 9/11 families has released an open letter thanking National
Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice for her testimony to the commission
probing the attacks and saying it should end "the incredible notion"
that President Bush knew 9/11 was coming and did nothing. The letter
signed by 40 relatives also blasts some members of the 9/11 commission
for trying to "grandstand for political gain" in hopes of embarrassing
Bush and thus politicizing the inquiry.
"I see the commission going partisan and that's not the way it's
supposed to be. If it does that, it will be nothing but a political
disgrace," said former United Firefighters Association chief Jimmy
Boyle, who lost his firefighter son Michael on 9/11. "It's a whole
new world as of Sept. 12 and I believe President Bush is the right
man."
The letter says: "We believe Dr. Rice when she says that the president
'would have moved heaven and earth' to prevent a terrorist attack
had he known such an attack on our homeland was imminent. Any suggestion
otherwise is incredible and inflammatory." (New York Post, April 14,
2004)
